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afs: Fix uninit var in afs_alloc_anon_key()
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:40:11 +0000 (00:40 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:48:18 +0000 (16:48 -0800)
Fix an uninitialised variable (key) in afs_alloc_anon_key() by setting it
to cell->anonymous_key.  Without this change, the error check may return a
false failure with a bad error number.

Most of the time this is unlikely to happen because the first encounter
with afs_alloc_anon_key() will usually be from (auto)mount, for which all
subsequent operations must wait - apart from other (auto)mounts.  Once the
call->anonymous_key is allocated, all further calls to afs_request_key()
will skip the call to afs_alloc_anon_key() for that cell.

Fixes: d27c71257825 ("afs: Fix delayed allocation of a cell's anonymous key")
Reported-by: Paulo Alcantra <pc@manguebit.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: syzbot+41c68824eefb67cdf00c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/afs/security.c

index ff8830e6982fb0f9541c8c3195b319ddd5450511..55ddce94af031370fca137137fd9c7d2748e6c9a 100644 (file)
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ static int afs_alloc_anon_key(struct afs_cell *cell)
        struct key *key;
 
        mutex_lock(&afs_key_lock);
-       if (!cell->anonymous_key) {
+       key = cell->anonymous_key;
+       if (!key) {
                key = rxrpc_get_null_key(cell->key_desc);
                if (!IS_ERR(key))
                        cell->anonymous_key = key;